The new law is set to force news aggregating services to pay for publishing news from Spanish media sources.
The closure "will not affect future agreements with the Spanish publishers," Anais Perez Figueras said, adding that Google's decision to shut down its Google News service in Spain was "a sad decision."
"We have been working with major publishers for a long time, not only because of this new legislative situation," Google's representative said.
Perez Figueras added that the main problem with the new law was the impossibility to abandon the right for intellectual property.
On December 11, Google announced that due to the new intellectual property law it had to shut down its Spanish language news aggregating service. The Spanish version of Google News is scheduled to close on December 16.
Google has already had similar problems in Germany, Belgium and France. In the French case, in January 2013, Google reached a consensus with the news publishers by paying 60 million euros ($75 million) into a fund to help French media improve its Internet presence.
